Monday, October 19, 2015

What's Fair For the Goose... Bitches

There is quite the Republican kerfuffle now over Trump's latest comments. He said that 9/11 wouldn't have happened on his watch. It may not have been Bush the Younger's fault, but... it did happen under that President (link).
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The Republican establishment in general and Jeb! in particular are up in arms about this. To which I say, What's good for the goose is good for the gander, bitches.
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You see, the Republicans have been "investigating" Benghazi now for 17 months and cost $4,500,000.00 to date. This is longer than Congress investigated 9/11 (link). .And Bush The Younger did get a warning about a month earlier (Aug 6, 2001) that Bin Laden was determined to attack in America and use planes (link).
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So, if you Republicans want to attack Secretary of State (not President) Clinton for an attack, in a Libyan city (not the capital) where the budget constraints (set by Republicans) were of priority and 4 people died... - then it is totally fair to call out the President when an attack killed over 3,000 Americans and the President was warned directly 34 days prior.
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Thems the breaks. And it is a Republican doing the attacking here, because the Republicans have set the precedent that any attacks are fair game. I suppose "Live by the sword, die by the sword" also works in this case.
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It is also poetic justice since two Republican members and one Congressional Staff member from the committee have all said this is just a hatchet job on Hillary Clinton.